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notion would fugged:. Something of truth, however, 

 mufl be allowed in this notion. Fewer labourers 

 may fometimes be wanted after inclofures, but not in 

 any confiderable degree, for in fome places more are 

 required by the improved hufbandry. Inclofures, 

 merely as fuch, cannot diminifh the quantity of land 

 in tillage. Moft inclofures for improving lands re- 

 quire tillage as the foundation of improvement: 

 And the demands of the markets, for the produce 

 either of arable or palture, will always govern, in a 

 confiderable degree, the choice of the farmer. He 

 will not decreafe his arable, and increafe his pafture, 

 but in conformity to the demand at market. The 

 demand of cJjeefe for foreign markets, added to the 

 leiTened incumbrance of tithes, on pafture, feems to 

 furnifli the principal exception to the above general 

 rule; and this, it is probable, is become and beco- 

 ming, more a confiderable evil than formerly, unlefs 

 we could have more land. 



9. The practice of engroffing fmall farms has 

 doubtlefs been rapidly advancing of late years; and 

 the effe£ls have been difadvantageous, from the in- 

 creafmg opulence of the occupiers ; ready-made for- 

 tunes being frequently carried into large farming : 

 and general opulence favours a difpofition to keep 

 up high prices for corn. Such farmers can often 

 fix prices too high, after harveft, and keep them up, 

 becaufe not neceffitated to a full fupply of the mar- 

 kets ; 



